The New Computer Geeks Gain Respect – Finally!
My area was educational documentation. My task was to transport the raw data from Vulcan to English. It was mesmerizing. However, not a day passed that my nails weren’t done to the nines. The modern geek didn’t acquire the moniker of computer geek until the early to mid 1980s. That’s when you started seeing the nerdy guy – always a guy – with a haircut that would have put Beaver, of the ‘Leave it to Beaver’ series, to shame. After all, that was the 1950s. The new computer geek became a caricature, with sparkling white shirt, bow tie and the perennial shirt pocket stuffed with a plastic wrapped selection of pens. This guy was always the outcast at a party, with buck teeth and social skills that would make a third grader a heartthrob at a sorority party.
